NHS trusts are spending six-figure sums on ‘woke’ diversity advisors only to see conditions worsen for the minority groups they were hired to help, an analysis by the Telegraph reveals.
The findings are based on assessments from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and disabled staff at bodies with some of the largest and most expensive Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) teams.
Among them is London’s King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which – with ten staff on combined salaries of £748,241 – is thought to spend one of the highest sums in the country on EDI roles.
In an annual report which monitors the experience of its own disabled employees the trust saw eight out of 13 assessed measures worsen.
Marginal rise in disabled staff experiencing harassment
In one glaring measure, the number of disabled staff saying their employer had made adequate adjustments to help them carry out their roles had fallen.
There was also a marginal rise in disabled staff experiencing harassment, bullying or abuse from managers at the trust.
It comes as the NHS is facing increasing calls to stop “promoting woke ideology” – with previous reports revealing more than £13 million is being spent on over 330 diversity roles across the UK.
Politicians and campaigners have questioned whether the taxpayer funds would be better spent elsewhere – such as addressing healthcare equalities among patients.
NHS trusts spending highest sums on combined salaries
Freedom of Information requests submitted on behalf of this newspaper have revealed the NHS trusts spending some of the highest sums on combined salaries for EDI roles.
However, analysis of annual assessments designed to monitor the experiences of disabled and non-white staff – Workplace Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workplace Disability Equality Standard (WDES) reports – suggests this has not improved all aspects of life for their employees.
Three out of five of the highest spending trusts which responded to the requests have seen more indicators worsen or stay the same than improve across the assessments overall.
Rupert Lowe, Reform UK Business Spokesman, said: “The supposed objective of retaining and attracting talent through staff satisfaction has been outed as a total con by this research – significant sums of taxpayer money are spent on these roles, with absolutely nothing to show for it.”
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“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive”.
Thomas Sowell
So, spending six-figure sums on diversity advisors has been effective – if we use the Covid vaccines definition of ‘effective’.
Imagine how much more discrimination of minority groups there would have been if six-figure sums on diversity advisors had not been spent.
That’s the way we’re supposed to look at things these days. Never mind that there were massively more Covid deaths after mass vaccination, compared with before, in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, as well as increases in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Turkey, it would have been so much worse if we imagine how even more massive the increase in Covid deaths would have been without the Covid vaccines. (The problem with anti-vaxxers is that they have no imagination.)
Congratulations to all the woke diversity advisors for their great success in preventing a massive increase in discrimination of minority groups – that’s an even greater level of success than the Covid vaccines.
“”the trust saw eight out of 13 assessed measures worsen.”” Maybe they should take a look at their measures and the measurement methodology.
What this evidence clearly proves is that more DEI staff are required. It’s not rocket science is it?
On double the pay.
Oh, most definitely. Quality shyte has to be paid for.
Sorry – couldn’t read the rest after ‘NHS’ and ‘Trust’ – laughing too much.
Is it really intended to reduce discrimination when people are encouraged to look for every possible difference and then treat it as an injustice? Working as intended.
There are obviously many ‘bullshit jobs’ which have been brought into being by the rise of the profesional managerial class. Just remember that this is imposture and they will be nothing in the horror to come. You will be surprised who remains steadfast and who turns out to be a turncoat. Don’t think about it. They will reveal themselves.
The woketards in the NHS are like the woketards in the Civil Service – going their own sweet way and ignoring (admittedly feeble) attempts by Government to stop their money wasting nonsense. Time for he who pays the piper to start calling the tune.
‘Woke’ diversity advisors’ will always find problems because if they said everything was ok then they would be out of a job.
Its what happened when Personnel became HR and then we saw the explosion in Health and Safety, led by ‘make a claim’ solicitors. All adding cost for deminishing returns.
The NHS never miss an opportunity to spend money on anything but frontline staff and equipment